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American Journal of Physics, vol. 68, no. 7 (July 2000)
includes Harry Lustig, "To Advance and Diffuse the Knowledge of Physics:
An Account of the One-Hundred-Year History of the American Physical Society,"
595-636. Vol. 68, no. 8 (August 2000) includes Alex Harvey and
Engelbert Schucking, "Einstein's Mistake and the Cosmological Constant,"
723-727.

Astrophysics and Space Science, vol. 267, nos.
1-4 (1999) is a special issue on stellar populations. Articles in this
volume include O. Gingerich, "Report on the Progress in Stellar Evolution
to 1950," 3-21; D. E. Osterbrock, "Walter Baade's Discovery of the Two
Stellar Populations," 23-35; N. G. Roman, "The Discovery of the Chemical
Composition-Kinematics Connection in the 1950's," 37-44; and A. Blaauw,
"Stellar Evolution and the Population Concept after 1950; The Vatican
Conference," 45-54.

Historical Records of Australian Science, vol.
12, no. 4 (December 1999) is a special issue on the history of
radar at The University of Sydney from 1939 to 1945. Articles include
Roy MacLeod, "Introduction: Revisiting Australia's Wartime Radar Programme,"
411-418; Harry Minnett, "The Radiophysics Laboratory at The University
of Sydney," 419-427; Harry Minnett et al., "Radar and the Bombing of Darwin,"
429-455; Harry Minnett et al., "Light-Weight Air Warning Radar," 457-467;
and Walter Fielder-Gill et al., "The 'Bailey Boys': The University of
Sydney and the Training of Radar Officers," 469-477. Vol. 13, no.
1 (June 2000) features Phillip Deery, "Scientific Freedom and Post-war
Politics: Australia, 1945-55," 1-18.

Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological
Sciences, vol. 29, part 2 (1999) includes Olivier Darrigol,
"From Organ Pipes to Atmospheric Motions: Helmholtz on Fluid Mechanics,"
1-54; Robert Fox and Anna Guagnini, "Laboratories, Workshops, and Sites.
Concepts and Practices of Research in Industrial Europe, 1800-1914," 55-140;
and Lucia Orlando, "Physics in the 1930s: Jewish Physicists' Contributions
to the Realization of the 'New Tasks' of Physics in Italy," 141-182. Vol.
30, part 1 (1999) features Finn Aaserud, "The Scientist and the
Statesman: Niels Bohr's Political Crusade during World War II," 1-47;
James H. Williams, "Fang Lizhi's Big Bang: A Physicist and the State in
China," 49-87; H. Lyman Miller, "Xu Liangying and He Zuoxiu: Divergent
Responses to Physics and Politics in the Post-Mao Period," 89-114; Cathryn
Carson, "New Models for Science in Politics: Heisenberg in West Germany,"
115-171; David Holloway, "Physics, the State, and Civil Society in the
Soviet Union," 173-192; Morris Low, "Science and Civil Society in Japan:
Physicists as Public Men and Policymakers," 193-225; Alexei Kojevnikov,
"Dialogues about Knowledge and Power in Totalitarian Political Culture,"
227-247; Zuoyue Wang, "U.S.-China Scientific Exchange: A Case Study of
State-Sponsored Scientific Internationalism during the Cold War and Beyond,"
249-277; and Jessica Wang, "Merton's Shadow: Perspectives on Science and
Democracy since 1940," 279-306. Vol. 30, part 2 (2000) includes
Barton Hacker, "Military Patronage and the Geophysical Sciences in the
United States: An Introduction," 309-313; James Rodger Fleming, "Storms,
Strikes, and Surveillance: The U.S. Army Signal Office, 1861-1891," 315-332;
Martin Levitt, "The Development and Politicization of the American Helium
Industry, 1917-1940," 333-347; Ronald Rainger, "Science at the Crossroads:
The Navy, Bikini Atoll, and American Oceanography in the 1940s," 349-371;
Naomi Oreskes, "Laissez-tomber: Military Patronage and Women's Work in
Mid-20th-Century Oceanography," 373-392; Deborah Warner, "From Tallahassee
to Timbuktu: Cold War Efforts to Measure Intercontinental Distances,"
393-415; and Nils Roll-Hansen, "The Application of Complementarity to
Biology: From Niels Bohr to Max Delbrück," 417-442.

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol.
22, no. 1 (January-March 2000) includes John A. N. Lee, "Howard
Aiken's Third Machine: The Harvard Mark III Calculator or Aiken-Dahlgren
Electronic Calculator," 62-81. Vol. 22, no. 2 (April-June 2000)
features Gerald Estrin, "Computer Network-Based Scientific Collaboration
in the Energy Research Community, 1973-1977: A Memoir," 42-52. Vol. 22,
no. 3 (July-September 2000) includes John A. N. Lee, Colin Burke,
and Deborah Anderson, "The U.S. Bombes, NCR, Joseph Desch, and 600 WAVES:
The First Reunion of the U.S. Naval Computing Machine Laboratory," 27-41;
and William Aspray, "Was Early Entry a Competitive Advantage? U.S. Universities
That Entered Computing in the 1940s," 42-87.

Journal for the History of Astronomy, vol. 31,
no. 103 (May 2000) includes William Sheehan and Donald E. Osterbrock,
"Hale's 'Little Elf': The Mental Breakdowns of George Ellery Hale," 93-114.
Vol. 31, no. 104 (August 2000) features Horace A. Smith, "Bailey,
Shapley, and Variable Stars in Globular Clusters," 185-201; and Barbara
J. Becker, "Priority, Persuasion, and the Virtue of Perseverance: William
Huggins's Efforts to Photograph the Solar Corona Without an Eclipse,"
223-243.

Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, vol.
3, no. 1 (June 2000) features Herbert Gursky, "Technology and the
Emergence of X-Ray Astronomy," 1-12; Martin Beech and David W. Hughes,
"Seeing the Impossible: Meteors in the Moon," 13-22; Wayne Orchiston,
Tom Love, and Steven J. Dick, "Refining the Astronomical Unit: Queenstown
and the 1874 Transit of Venus," 23-44; and Bambang Hidayat, "Under a Tropical
Sky: A History of Astronomy in Indonesia," 45-58.

Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London,
vol. 54, no. 1 (January 2000) features D.C.V. Mallik, "The
Raman Effect and Krishnan's Diary," 67-83; and G.E. Fogg, "The Royal Society
and the Antarctic," 85-98. Vol. 54, no. 2 (May 2000) includes Wilfried
Schröder and Karl-Heinrich Wiederkehr, "Johann Kiessling, the Krakatoa
Event and the Development of Atmospheric Optics After 1883," 249-258.

Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics,
vol. 31B, no. 1 (March 2000) features Fritz Rohrlich, "Causality
and the Arrow of Classical Time," 1-13; Galina Granek, "Poincaré's
Contributions to Relativistic Dynamics," 15-48; and Daniela M. Bailer-Jones,
"Modelling Extended Extragalactic Radio Sources," 49-74. Vol. 31B,
no. 2 (June 2000) is a special issue on relativity. Articles include
John D. Norton, "'Nature is the Realisation of the Simplest Conceivable
Mathematical Ideas': Einstein and the Canon of Mathematical Simplicity,"
135-170; Roberto Torretti, "Spacetime Models for the World," 171-186;
and Carl Hoefer, "Energy Conservation in GTR," 187-199. Vol. 31B, no.
3 (September 2000) is a special issue on geophysics. Articles in this
issue include Gregory A. Good, "The Assembly of Geophysics: Scientific
Disciplines as Frameworks of Consensus," 259-292; James R. Fleming, "T.
C. Chamberlin, Climate Change, and Cosmogony," 293-308; Naomi Oreskes
and Ronald Rainger, "Science and Security before the Atomic Bomb: The
Loyalty Case of Harald U. Sverdrup," 309-369; and John Cloud, "Crossing
the Olentangy River: The Figure of the Earth and the Military-Industrial-Academic-Complex,
1947-1972," 371-404.